Real Life
So, I had a thought. (Hey you in the back- stop giggling.) Seriously, I’m thinking as I’m on a run and I said to me, “Self, we have amazing friends. They are talented, kind, simply outstanding human beings.” My self […]
Today I would to introduce you, or reintroduce you, to one of my all-time favorite female vocalists. I recently had a friend post his favorite male singers and that spun my head down a rabbit hole. (By the way, the […]
I know, I know… it’s not even remotely Monday, but, hey, I figure if the Republicans can call themselves the party of “family values” then I can put a Musical Monday out on a Wednesday. Thursday May 21st, 2026 was […]
I hate that so many of the blogs I write out of necessity begin with a cliche, but it seems unavoidable any time one speaks of a universal theme or truth. This week I want to talk about and remember […]
I’m always excited about my Musical Monday posts- simply put, they are fun to write and even more fun to research. Music is a huge part of my day to day. Whether I’m writing, working out, driving, or simply doing […]
I was speaking with a friend of mine this week and she was lamenting the price of concert tickets (which I completely get) and saying that she just never goes to shows these days. She mentioned $300 a ticket for […]
In the last few years I have been making a special effort to find new bands. The thing is, I am middle age (and fabulous) and the bands and their members who I grew up listening to in high school, […]
I’m having a hard time letting this one go. We have all seen the videos online of Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis. I’m going to just say at the outset there needs to be a full investigation with cooperation between […]
So, it’s been a tough week newswise…again. The murders of the Reiners and the inhuman comments from the White House on said tragedy, the death of Anthony Geary, we are apparently at war with Venezuela(???), the destruction of the East […]
I find that in day-to-day life one runs across few opportunities to use an awesome word like “dastardly.” It’s a great word. So when I decided to write about the five things which can harm your wine, I simply had […]
It’s hard to believe how many good people we have lost, just in this past month, and had you asked me before who my favorite actresses are, I am not sure that Diane Keaton would have made the list. Yet, […]
Hello Lovely People… it’s Wednesday and that (usually) means wine. It’s very fun for me, you see, to get to wear different hats and use different facets of my mind. The fantasy author in me gets to dream big, while […]
If you’ve ever been wine tasting then you know that every winery under the sun has a wine club. While they are borderline universal, wine clubs do vary from venue to venue and some are definitely better than others. Let’s […]
This week’s song is a fun little diddy that danced across my TikTok. I was shocked. A country song about burning red hats? Is that even possible? Allowed? And then I realized my mistake. I saw all the bullshit misconceptions […]
Yep, I said moolah. Money, dough, cash, Benjamins, clams, greenbacks, bread, cheddar…ooh, bread and cheddar… goes with wine! And full circle, we are back to one of my favorite topics. I do love a nice glass of wine in the […]
As the years pass I find myself valuing personal integrity and authenticity more and more. Sadly, these are qualities where it is easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk. How many times have we held back from […]
On Monday March 13th I published my first blog in two and a half very rough years, then I put the link up on Facebook, both on my personal and my author page. After that, I left it and went […]
Hello, friends…I seem to be in a bit of a Nightwish tear right now. As I put together a Gryphon play list and in doing so, a manuscript for The Dragon in The Garden’s sooooooo long overdue sequel, these are […]
This week’s song is “How’s The Heart?” by Nightwish off their new album Human Nature (which is AMAZING). I chose it for three reasons. 1.) It’s awesome- Go, Floor! Her vocals are at a new level! 2.) How’s the heart […]
This is a piece regarding my town and my neighborhood. It is a subject that I have wanted to write about for a while now. The grocery store that I shop at has men in front of it collecting for […]
Last Holiday Season, my husband and son did something truly cool with their Boy Scout Troop. They spent a Saturday with the Turning Wheels group, assembling donated bikes for children who, without this gift, might not be receiving anything under […]
I would like to stress that I did not write this. A friend posted it to Facebook and I happened to read it. It made such an impression on me that I wanted to help spread its message: be kind […]
Let me preface here, while this blog post is clearly going to be a complaint, I do not want to come across as the old lady saying, “In my day we walked barefoot in the snow twenty miles to school, […]
“The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It’s a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people. ” ~Frank James There are times […]
Well, color me happy, yea team and go us! We win! On January 20th, 2012, Congress dropped both SOPA and PIPA. Thank you everyone for your support and for such an over whelming demonstration that the American public IS actually […]
Happy Stop SOPA Day!!! Now, I don’t know if it will replace the Super Bowl as America’s most celebrated unofficial holiday but honestly, an awful lot of people took part in yesterday’s online blackout, yours truly included. It’s interesting, isn’t […]
For those of you kind enough to keep score… This is a quick follow-up to last week’s running post. Keeping things brief, some of you have been kind enough to ask how Sunday’s race went. Well, as I wrote one […]
To paraphrase John Lennon, “Life is something that happens when you’re busy making other plans”. At least I think that’s who said it and approximately what was said. I’m a little nervous World and it tends to make me sarcastic, […]
